nephatrine/remark42-ce repository overview

⁠Remark42 Comment Engine

This is an Alpine-based container hosting the Remark42 comment engine. This is not super useful by itself, but can be called into from other containerized web applications to add a comments system or "guestbook" to static HTML pages, post templates, and the like.

To secure this service, we suggest a separate reverse proxy server, such as nephatrine/nginx-ssl⁠.

⁠Supported Tags

• remark42-ce:1.17.1: Remark42 1.17.1

⁠Software

• Alpine Linux⁠
• Skarnet S6⁠
• s6-overlay⁠
• Remark42⁠

⁠Configuration

There are some important configuration files you need to be aware of and potentially customize.

• /mnt/config/etc/remark42-config

This is a bash script that will be sourced by the startup routine to include additional tweaks or setup you would like to perform. Modifications to these files will require a service restart to pull in the changes made.

Rather than using the config file, you can also just pass environment variables to the Docker container. Remark supports a huge number of such options, however, and so it is generally easier to just chuck them into a file.

You can place any additional web files here and they will be served, if present. It will require a service restart to pull in new or updated files, however.

• /mnt/config/www/remark42/*

⁠Container Variables

• TZ: Time Zone (i.e. America/New_York)
• PUID: Mounted File Owner User ID
• PGID: Mounted File Owner Group ID
• REMARK_URL: Remark42 External URL
• SITE: Remark42 Site ID

⁠Testing

⁠docker-compose

services:
  remark42-ce:
    image: nephatrine/remark42-ce:latest
    container_name: remark42-ce
    environment:
      TZ: America/New_York
      PUID: 1000
      PGID: 1000
      REMARK_URL: http://127.0.0.1:8080
      SITE: remark
    ports:
      - 8080:8080/tcp
    volumes:
      - /mnt/containers/remark42-ce:/mnt/config

⁠docker run

docker run --rm -ti code.nephatrine.net/nephnet/remark42-ce:latest /bin/bash